Not only do these two Internet rivals have multi-billion dollar fortunes, but they enjoy spots in the top twenty on Fortune’s ‘Most Admired Companies’ list.

An interesting development, tucked away in an article at Fortune magazine about the company behind the Parallels software program, which allows Mac users to run Windows in a virtual machine and switch back and forth (relatively) seamlessly.

Now that Google has been around long enough to be eligible for Fortune Magazine’s “The 100 Best Companies to Work For” list, it promptly debuted at number one.

Grab you morning coffee and settle down for a long, envy-inducing read as to how Google made it to the top of Fortune’s list of Best Companies to Work For.

The Beatles and Apple Computer may be close to reaching a deal to finally make their music available online. According to an article from Fortune, Apple’s iTunes is nearing an agreement with representatives of the massively popular group.

ClickZ takes a closer look at Google’s tougher algorithms for AdWords landing pages. The changes are designed to filter out MFA sites aka “made for AdSense” which are designed to attract traffic for pennies and display AdSense ads that earn the publisher a profit.

According to the findings of JupiterResearch, corporate blogging is about to become big – really big. It seems these expectations may be impossibly optimistic, as a matter of fact. But JupiterResearch believes that “nearly 70 percent of all site operators will have implemented corporate blogs by the end of 2006.”

BusinessWeek’s Bruce Nussbaum points out the next best thing to an executive blogging-an executive actively reading blogs.

I attended the Business Marketing Association conference in San Jose, and had the chance to hear a great presentation by Justin Crotty, who is the VP of Channel Marketing for Ingram Micro, a $28 billion technology distributor (#72 on the Fortune 500 last year, for what it’s worth).

Drama! A journo joins the White House full-time and a well-deserved promotion creates the first Fortune 500 CEO blog.

Despite our country’s great strides in working to give women equal rights in virtually every aspect of society, there is still a “glass ceiling” both in PR and in the broader Fortune 500.

Gary Price has a list of big net companies in the Fortune 500. Google is #323 overall, and #3 in the Internet Services and Retailing sector.

During a compelling presentation of Fortune Interactive’s SEMLogic demo, I realized a greater implication of the service than accurate search marketing – Mike Marshall and his team have managed to duplicate search engine functionality.